Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while … students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. The strength of the …. Finland and Japan achieve high levels of performance by ensuring that the children of parents who work in elementary …

Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. Across OECD countries …, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in how well students …

In 2012, 15-year-old students spent over two hours on line each day, on average across OECD countries. The most common …% of students doing one of these every day or almost every day. Students who spent more than six hours per day on line … average across OECD countries, 7% of students spend this much time on line during a typical weekday. …

It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all … OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact …, the difference between students who had attended for more than one year and those who had not attended at all averaged 54 …

Some 65% of socio-economically advantaged students reported that they know well or have often heard of the concept of … quadratic function, on average across OECD countries; but only 43% of disadvantaged students so reported. On average across OECD … countries, the 20% of students who are most exposed to pure mathematics tasks (equations) score, on the PISA mathematics test …

Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest …, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia and Viet Nam, more than 30% of disadvantaged students scored at Level 3 or above in all PISA … subjects in 2015, and can thus be considered “academically resilient”. Students who perform at Level 3 begin to demonstrate the …

Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very … differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar … socio-economic status is smaller in school systems with large immigrant populations and where immigrant students are as …